(majestic music)

Well, welcome to "The 700 Club".

Countries can rise or fall
on a piece of technology

that fits on the
tip of your finger.

Semiconductors are
critical for everything

from weapon systems
to microwaves.

Currently, the world's biggest
manufacturer of these chips

is Taiwan, although China is set

on taking over
global production.

As Brody Carter reports,
that could mean a chip war

in the making.

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- The key to dominating
international technology

and computing power rests
in semiconductor chips,

basically, the brains
of modern electronics,

and you might be surprised
the United States

isn't the world leader

in this multi-billion-dollar
industry.

It's not even second.

The US government's goal is
simply to stay ahead of China.

- When we look at the
world's most advanced chips,

Taiwan makes 92% of them.

Matter of fact, one company
in Taiwan makes 92%.

- [Brody] The small
island of Taiwan

clearly dominates the
world's semiconductor market.

That single manufacturer
Chang refers to is TSMC,

Taiwan Semiconductor
Manufacturing Company,

and Apple is its
biggest customer.

- So if it were knocked offline,

we'd face a huge economic crisis

because our inability to
get the chips we need.

- [Brody] Tufts University
professor, Chris Miller,

is the author of "Chip War,

the Fight for the World's
Most Critical Technology."

He says the Taiwanese company's
dominance in semiconductors

makes OPEC's 40% share
of world oil production

pale by comparison.

- Today, China spends as much
money importing semiconductors

as it spends importing oil,
and it buys those chips,

in large part, from US firms

that make great business
selling to China.

- [Brody] The chip
industry is made possible

by a symbiotic relationship
among key countries

that forms a very
complex supply chain.

America, the world's
largest market,

also makes up 40%
of the total value

of this international
supply machine.

- Today, if you wanna
make an advanced chip,

the most cutting-edge chips
that you'd find in a smartphone

or data center, it's
simply impossible to do

without using
software from the US,

machine tools from the
Netherlands, the US, and Japan,

ultra-purified
chemicals from Japan,

as well as manufacturing
capabilities in Taiwan.

It's an international process.

- [Brody] Just a few years ago,
China's tech giant, Huawei,

was TSMC's number two customer.

Then the Trump administration
tightened restrictions,

preventing Huawei from getting
chips developed by the US

due to espionage and
national security concerns.

- Huawei is something
that's very dangerous.

You look at what they've done
from a security standpoint,

from a military standpoint,
it's very dangerous.

- If Taiwan were taken over,

or even if Taiwan
wasn't taken over,

but there was a war
on the Taiwan Strait

that Taiwan
repelled, even still,

the shock the
semiconductor supply chain

would cause a deep depression

in manufacturing
industries worldwide,

and the reason is that,
today, all types of goods

require semiconductors.

It's not just
smartphones or PCs,

sort of high-tech goods
that you might think of.

It's your car,

which might have hundreds
of semiconductors inside,

your coffeemaker, your
microwave, almost anything

with an on-off switch today has
semiconductors inside of it.

- [Brody] More importantly,
Miller told CBN news,

microchips has
revolutionized warfare.

Semiconductors made in Taiwan
are used in F-35 fighter jets

and a wide range of
US-military-grade weapons

and defense systems.

Since the world's entire
tech ecosystem can't function

without these chips, that
makes the sovereign island

ground zero for a chip war
between the US and China.

- And that means that the
world's made-to-order chips

are made on China's doorstep.

Both South Korea and
Taiwan are vulnerable,

and it is not inconceivable

that China could take
over both of them.

- [Brody] That's what makes
the communist government's

Made in China 2025 plan to
make the country dominant

in global high-tech
manufacturing a true threat

to the US, both
economically and militarily.

- As China's become stronger,
it's become more belligerent,

more provocative,
more aggressive.

This is perhaps the greatest
mistake America has made

throughout its history,
and it's a mistake

that we may not survive.

- [Brody] It's one reason
the US followed suit

with the CHIPS Act,
pouring out billions

to bring chip manufacturing
and research back to the US.

- If you wanna
build a cutting-edge
chip-making facility,

it'll cost 20 or $25
billion for just one plant.

These are the most expensive
factories in human history.

- [Brody] TSMC has committed
at least 12 billion

to build a chip fabrication
plant in Arizona.

Still, neither China nor
the US can overtake Taiwan

and achieve self-sufficiency
anytime soon.

- We should care about
where they're made

because we need them
to drive our economy,

and it is the
case, increasingly,

that things that
are further away,

things that are at the hands
of geopolitical adversaries,

may not be attainable at all
times, and that provides,

you know, a concern of
vulnerability for us.

It also provides our adversaries

a strength that they can use.

- While Taiwan has
maintained its sovereignty

for more than 70 years,

China still considers the
island nation its property

and regularly provokes
it militarily.

Given China's authoritarian
use of technology

against its own people,

and the potential power
of semiconductors,

who controls the
world's technology
and data is paramount.

This evolving technology
makes semiconductors

even more of a national
security concern,

especially with progress
in artificial intelligence

and quantum computing.

The chip war is well underway

and exactly how hostile this
war becomes remains to be seen.

Brody Carter, CBN News.

- Well, any kind of
strength/weakness analysis,

you always look at
single points of failure.

If Taiwan semiconductor
would fail,

you literally wipe out 90%
of the world's production.

That's why it's important
for us to stand for Taiwan

and to stand for
Taiwan's independence.

Literally, everything that
we use to run the world

is dependent on
that one company.

- Mommy wine culture,
well, that's a catchphrase

of a marketing campaign
targeting young mothers.

It aims to convince them
that they need alcohol

to cope with the pressures
of raising children.

Social media memes make it
sound like it's harmless fun.

Well, CBN medical
reporter Lorie Johnson

shows us why it's
deadly serious.

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- Wine gets better with
age, I get better with wine.

(audience laughs)

Okay, guilty, you
girls know that's true.

(audience laughs)

- We do.

(people laughing)

- [Lorie] The troubling messages
often try to be humorous

and appear on a number of
products, from baby clothes

with "Mommy drinks
because I cry"

to wine glasses with
"Mommy's sippy cup,"

T-shirts reading "Coffee,
hockey mom, wine, repeat,"

and even memes like "The most
expensive part of having kids

is all the wine
you have to drink."

- I think this messaging
that is everywhere,

it normalizes this behavior,

of drinking to
survive parenthood,

and it normalizes this idea
that like drinking a lot

is no big deal.

- [Lorie] As it turns out,

the messaging sadly
reflects reality.

Kelly Manley turned to alcohol
to fit in with her peers,

who she observed
drinking everywhere,

at kids' birthday parties,
soccer practices, you name it.

- People would show up to the
park with little, you know,

discreet glasses of wine
to have at, you know,

four p.m. on a play
date at the park.

You know, you go to the zoo,
and for a small upcharge,

you can buy a flight of
beer, not just a beer,

but a flight of beer to enjoy

while you're pushing
your kid around the zoo.

- [Lorie] And like
other events these days,

it's going digital,

like the Moms Who Need
Wine Facebook group

- Alcohol has been sold as the
ultimate way to decompress,

to cope, and to bond
with other women,

and it's very dangerous.

- [Lorie] The alcohol industry
has certainly played a part.

Back in the '90s,

it ushered in the so-called
"pinking of the market,"

making and advertising booze
aimed specifically at women.

- Drink these sweetened,
pre-sweetened, gorgeous,

attractive pink drinks
that will end you

into drinking spirits,
drinking pretty wine,

drinking wine with names
like, you know, French Rabbit.

- And it worked.

While, historically, men
consumed the most alcohol,

women are now catching up.

In the last 15 years,
the greatest increase

in consumption has been among
women in their 30s and 40s.

However, because of
biological differences,

women absorb more alcohol

and take longer to
metabolize it than men.

That means the same
amount of alcohol

typically damages the female
body more than the man's.

After drinking the
same amount of alcohol,

women tend to have higher
blood alcohol levels than men,

and the effects usually
occur more quickly

and last longer in women.

Alcohol also makes women
more susceptible than men

to liver disease,
heart disease, cancer,

and cognitive decline.

US health officials
recommend women should drink

no more than five
ounces of wine a day.

Canadian health
officials go further,

saying only two five-ounce
glasses per week.

- This is a women's
health issue.

It's in fact a big
public health issue.

- [Lorie] And it's
not just physical.

Alcohol affects
mental health too,

which is why Kelly gave it up.

- It just exacerbated
my feelings of anxiety
and depression,

and I felt like I was betraying
myself every time I drank.

- [Lorie] She's not alone.

More moms are rejecting
mommy wine culture

and turning to groups
like Sober Mom Squad.

- Having a safe space where
you can talk to other moms

about, you know, the questions
you're having about alcohol,

or how difficult it is to
navigate in this culture

where everyone tells you you
need to drink to be a parent

and not have to justify that
you should just be grateful

to have kids.

- [Lorie] Many moms
are also saying no

because they're concerned
about the culture's impact

on their child's self-esteem.

- Most problematic part of it

is what is it
saying to your kids?

Again, if it's, you know,
tongue-in-cheek jokes

like between friends,
that's one thing,

but when it, you're wearing
the T-shirt that said,

"Mommy needs wine," you know,
saying that you have to,

you know, "I have to drink
because you're difficult,"

I think that leads
into something that's
even more damaging.

- [Lorie] So while pop
culture and Big Alcohol

try to convince new moms
life is better with booze,

a growing number are
rejecting that message

for the sake of their
own health, as well
as their families.

Lorie Johnson, CBN News.

- I wish being sober were
somehow cool in our culture,

but, unfortunately, there's
no industry behind sobriety.

There's plenty of industry
behind the wine industry,

behind the alcohol industry,
and all they're trying to do

is encourage you to drink
more of their product,

but here's the problem.

If you drink to
solve your problems,

all you're doing
is irrigating them,

and you're making them worse.

Alcohol, medical science
says, alcohol is a depressant.

So if you're sad, if you're
overcome by what's going on

in your life, and you
add alcohol to the mix,

all you're doing
is making it worse.

It's not helping you at all.

So if you see someone
wearing that T-shirt,

if you see someone
with that throw pillow,

it's a warning sign,
it's a wake-up call

for all the friends, all the
family around that individual,

they need help, and
wouldn't it be wonderful

if the community came
around mothers and said,

"How can we help you?

How can we relieve
your burden today?

Instead of that glass of wine,
how about having a spa day,

and I'll help you with the
kids, and you go have a moment

where you can decompress
and do so very healthily,

with health behind
it, not with something

that's going to make it worse."

- Drew Anderson said he
needed two things in life.

The first, a heartbeat,
the second, cocaine.

Drew said the drug gave him
a feeling of invincibility.

Then, the night three
men broke into his house,

all that came crashing down.

- [Drew] One night,
I was asleep,

it was early in the morning,
then I heard some noise

in the living room, and, you
know, I got up out of bed,

and there's somebody
in my living room,

and so I go after him.

I move him out of the
way pretty easily.

What I didn't see was two other
people, and they stood up,

and one of 'em had a gun.

I remember looking at the
gun being pointed at me,

and the last noise
that I remember hearing

was the gunshot go off.

(gun fires)

- [Narrator] Drew Anderson
was on a crash course

with destruction long before
he was shot in the face

during a random home invasion.

He was adopted from
Korea by military parents

when he was a child.

they moved frequently,
leaving Drew longing

for a sense of identity.

- You know, I was
given up at birth,

and so I just really struggled,
you know, to identify

with where I belonged
and who I was,

and so I just literally
became a kid who existed

until it was time to
exist somewhere else.

- [Narrator] When he was
14, his parents retired

in San Antonio.

Desperate for friendships,
Drew quickly got in

with a rough crowd.

- I wanted to
belong to something,

and so, I started
to look for that,

and it ended up being the people

who wanted to take advantage
of my vulnerability

and my emotional,
you know, situation,

where I was literally
just desperately searching

for somebody to accept me.

You know, I went from being
a pretty innocent, silent kid

to being very vocal,
very aggressive,

very outspoken,
smoking weed, drinking,

small criminal stuff like theft

and breaking into people's
homes, and it just,

it moved very, very quickly

because I was finally getting
acceptance, affirmation,

and I felt as if I
belonged to something.

- [Narrator] Drew
left home at 17

and felt empowered to
explore his new identity.

Cocaine use became
a daily obsession.

- I became lawless, drugs
all day, high on cocaine.

You know, now I'm
going to rob people,

now I'm going to sell
at a higher ratio.

I'm gonna sell more, I'm
gonna make more money.

And so, the floodgates
of criminal activity

just opened all the way up.

- [Narrator] Cocaine fueled him

and gave Drew a feeling
of invincibility.

- People respect me more
when I'm on this stuff.

People take me more seriously
when I'm on this stuff,

and so it felt as if,
next to a heartbeat,

that it was the second
most necessary thing

in my life to be on.

I was definitely addicted,

but addiction wasn't
even how I felt it.

It was just, I need this
because it makes me who I am.

- [Narrator] Then, in 2012,
Drew confronted the men

who broke into his home.

The bullet to his face
lacerated his brain

instead of traveling
right through it.

He woke days later in the
hospital, broken and helpless.

- When I woke up, I couldn't
hear out of my right ear.

I couldn't open my
mouth and speak.

The first question I had that
I wrote on my little board

was, "What happened?"

You know, and they're
like, "You got shot

with a .45 caliber handgun
from nearly point-blank range,

and you should not be alive."

I had a nurse that was
assigned to my room

one of the very first
days I was there.

She sat in a chair next to me
and started to read the Bible

and started to pray, and I
wish I could have told her

to leave or, you
know, to get out

because that's definitely
what I wanted her to do,

but I couldn't because
my mouth was wired shut.

- [Narrator] His nurse
continued to visit Drew

and read the Bible faithfully
for the next 90 days.

- She just stayed consistent.

Came in, told me, "I've
looked at your chart.

I know what you've been through.

I know that you
got this going on.

You shouldn't be alive,
but you're alive,

and God has plans for you.

You know, God wants to do
something in your life,"

and, you know, over
time, as it passed

and her consistency grew,
I just submitted to it.

By the time I left the
hospital, you know,

she asked me a question,
and she was like,

"You know, promise me that
you're gonna go find a church."

She had earned my trust, and
she had earned my respect

in her consistency, and
so I told her I would.

- [Narrator] The very next day,
Drew stepped into a church.

In a moment, he found
what he had longed for

his entire life.

- I walk into this church,
and I got watery eyes,

and I don't really understand
why, but then the pastor

at the time has an
impromptu altar call

right in the middle of worship,
offering people the chance

to accept Jesus as
their Lord and savior,

and I just wept, man.

I accepted Jesus as
my Lord and savior.

I felt this, just this
weight come off of me,

and I was just crying,
unexplainably crying.

Full peace had come over me.

- [Narrator] Drew was
set free from cocaine,

and his identity was redefined
as he immersed himself

in the Bible and his
new church community.

- When I started to read
his Word, I felt different.

When I started to
pray, I felt the peace

that I had always looked for.

I started to read my
identity in a book

and found my
identity in the Lord.

- [Narrator] Drew says he is
thankful his life was spared,

and for a second chance to
find meaning and purpose

in the time he's been given.

- I lost so much time,
I lost a lot of people,

I lost, you know, time
even with my parents,

and, man, God has
restored it all,

you know, I have
beautiful wife, ministry,

tons of spiritual kids now
because I'm a youth pastor,

and I'm so grateful
that Jesus stepped in,

and that Jesus made
himself known to me

when I would never
have sought him out.

- He comes after us, he comes
after us because he loves us,

because he sees us
in our lostness,

trying to figure out who we are.

Don't you think everybody
goes through that

at some point in their life?

It's not just what
is my life about,

it's who am I, why am I here?

I mean, I think most of us ask
that question at some point.

Some of us take a longer
journey than others finding it,

and some don't ever find it,
but you are meant to find it.

I love the fact that Drew
says as that faithful nurse

read the Word of God, he
began to hear who he was.

You know, God doesn't
keep a secret from us.

He wants us to know him.

We are the ones who shy
away from coming to him,

shy away from his words, shy
away from even the message

of his love because
we wanna do it our way

because we think
we've got the answers,

because we think we've
figured out how to belong,

how to feel special,

how to feel like our
lives are significant.

The search for significance,
it's in all of us.

Why are we here?

You know, until you really
meet the one who created you

to be here, who created you
with intention and purpose,

it's hard to get an
answer to any of that.

You are a creation
of the living God.

He saw you, the Bible says,

these are the kinds
of bits of information

that put the whole
picture together.

He saw you while you
were being formed

in your mother's womb.

He knew you before then and had
ordained your days, it says,

and then it talks about a
God who loved you enough,

seeing you in your lostness,
who came himself to suffer

so that you wouldn't have to,

to die so that you
wouldn't have to,

to pay the price so that you
could have eternity with him,

with this one who loves you

beyond anything the
world can offer you.

If you're someone today who
is searching for significance,

if you don't understand why
you're here, come to Jesus.

I know that can sound so simple,

but what a difference
it makes in your life,

and what have you got to lose?

When I made a
commitment to Christ,

it was pretty, pretty raw.

I just said, "Jesus,
if you're there,

I give you what's left of
my life, and if you're not,

I'm no worse off than I was
before I said this prayer,"

but I meant it, and he knew
I meant it, and he came,

and he waited while I read
his Word, while I grew,

while I recognized
the things in my life

that I needed to change, God
never took anything from me.

He changed me, and I got
rid of the junk in my life.

He'll do that for you too.

He loves you so much,

more than you could
ask for or imagine.

Just pray this prayer.

Jesus, I want to know you.

I wanna know who I am
and why you created me.

I wanna know where we fit
together in this world

and the life that
you've given me.

I wanna be forgiven because
I've made a lot of dumb choices,

and I've done many
foolish things.

I've hurt others, I've
hurt myself, and Jesus,

I'm asking you to forgive me.

There's no other
name under heaven

by which men may be saved,
and I declare your name today,

Jesus, be my savior, be my Lord.

Show me how to live,
teach me your ways.

Fill me with your Holy Spirit

so that I can live differently,
live for you, live with you.

I'm asking this in your
mighty name, Jesus, amen.

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- One meal a day, that's
all Isabel and her son

could afford to eat.

Sometimes, they went the
whole day with no food at all.

That Operation Blessing
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and now this mother and
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Here's how you helped
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- [Narrator] Isabel is a single
mother raising her son Marco

in Iquitos, Peru.

To support him, she grows
and sells chili peppers,

and she makes and
sells corn tamales

on the main street
of her community.

Five-year-old Marco
likes to help.

- I help my mom to make the
tamales and with the housework.

- [Narrator] But the
money Isabel earned

working seven days a
week was often not enough

to restock the business
and buy food for the day.

- I typically only make enough
for us to eat one meal a day.

- [Narrator] There were times

when Marco said they went
the whole day without eating.

- I remember a day when I
didn't have anything to eat.

Then a neighbor
gave us some food.

I decided to give it to my son.

That night, I tried to
make him fall asleep

so that he would
not ask me for food.

- [Narrator] Then Operation
Blessing came to the community

and trained Isabel how to raise
and sell broiler chickens.

After the training, Operation
Blessing built a coop

and gave her 100
broiler chickens

to start the poultry business.

- They not only gave me a shed,

but feeders for food and water,

everything needed to
raise the chickens.

- When Mom sells chickens,
she buys food for me.

Now we eat three times a day.

- I have now been raising
and selling chickens

for two years.

With the profits, I am
increasing the business,

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- LaTroy Dixon knew he
was in a world of trouble

when he felt a sudden,
sharp pain in his chest.

He was lucky just to
make it to the hospital.

The fact that he walked out
is nothing short of a miracle.

- [LaTroy] The pain that I
felt was so sharp and so sudden

that it felt like I'd
been shot in the chest.

- [Narrator] LaTroy
Dixon was at work

when the chest pain started.

At home later that night,
the pain had gotten worse,

and he drove himself to the ER.

Tests showed he had
an aortic dissection,

a tear in the main artery that
carries blood from the heart

that was causing massive
internal bleeding.

LaTroy, a nurse's aide,
knew it could be fatal.

- I knew by this point, I
was in a lot of trouble.

Then I began to appeal to God

'cause I thought I was
gonna die, I really did.

"God, just don't let
me die like this."

- [Narrator] LaTroy got
word out to relatives

and told them he was scheduled
for surgery the next morning.

As soon as his aunt Sharon
heard, she went to the hospital,

praying the whole way.

- That was the scariest
thing to me in my life,

to see him like that 'cause
this was always the strong guy

that prayed over everybody.

- [Narrator] The next morning,
just before the surgery,

LaTroy's younger brother,
Tremaine, arrived.

- I was terrified to see
him laying on that bed

with all those cords,
and it was, it was tough.

This is my brother.

He has to make it.

You don't understand.

He cannot not make it.

He has to make it.

- [Narrator] Doctors told
the family to be prepared

for the worst.

Half the people who
experience this condition

don't live more than 48 hours.

In fact, doctors were shocked
LaTroy was able to get himself

to the hospital before
having a stroke.

- Based on what they were
saying, I'll be honest,

I had some doubts.

Not so much in what
Christ could do,

more of this could be it.

I just kind of had to
give it over to him,

and that was tough.

- [Narrator] It took
doctors 12 hours

to repair the torn artery.

During the procedure,
LaTroy had a stroke,

which complicated his
condition even further.

LaTroy's life was
still in danger,

and doctors put him in a
medically induced coma.

They told the family
that if he survives,

he might be
permanently disabled,

unable to walk or even talk.

- They're saying that it's
very possible he can wake up,

he just won't be that LaTroy.

That's the part that
I feared the most

'cause I need him back.

Me and God tuggle
with that part.

I'm saying, "Lord, I
want him back this way."

- Everything is done on
God's time, it's his will.

So that's the only
thing we could do,

but for God to have his
will and not give up.

- [Narrator] Finally,
his family could see him.

- The hardest moment was
seeing him laying on his back,

and his chest going up and down.

He didn't look like my nephew.

I tried to stay in there.

I can see him right now.

It was scary, it was scary,
and I tried not to show fear

because I wanted
to be a strong one,

but it was hard, it was.

- [Narrator] It was
in the following days,

it became clear
LaTroy would live.

Meanwhile, other relatives,
friends, and church members

gathered at the hospital,
joining in prayer

for LaTroy's complete healing.

- There's nothing else
to do but talk to God,

thank God for the deliverance,

and thank God for
being the almighty.

That's all we had to do.

- [Narrator] Eight
days after his surgery,

LaTroy was brought
out of the coma.

The stroke had left him
paralyzed on his right side.

Then LaTroy, who's
also a pastor,

realized something
else was wrong.

- It's a scary feeling to open
your mouth to say something

and literally nothing came out.

I was asking God, "What
happened, like, what's going on?

Why did this happen, why?"

He just communicated, he
communicated trust to me, trust.

- [Narrator] With
LaTroy now in rehab,

relearning how to walk and
talk, the prayers continued.

- We know prayer changes things.

First of all, we know
that, and we would pray

that he would get better,
and we could see progress.

It was little, it wasn't a
whole lot, just a little bit,

but we, you know, we trust God.

- [Narrator] After three weeks,

they knew God had
answered their prayers.

- As he started to
do things normally,

that's when God start to show
me that he's gonna be okay.

- I remember coming up there

and him saying that
he wanted chicken.

He started talking
about food he wanted.

I said, "Oh yeah, I know
you getting better now,

you talking about food."

- [Narrator] After another
two weeks in rehab,

LaTroy walked out of
the hospital on his own.

- [Sharon] He's on his way out.

Y'all look at him, he
walking ahead of me.

- [Speaker] Oh, Elizabeth.

- [Narrator] Now back at work,

LaTroy has regained
full mobility

and has had no complications.

He and his family are thankful
for the care he received

and for the prayers they
believe were key to his survival

and complete recovery.

- I've seen God do miraculous
things with prayer,

and my story is one of them.

- He is a miracle,
he's a walking miracle.

I want people to
know that when you,

anything you go through,
nothing is too tough for God.

- The power of God is
just, it's amazing.

I'm at a point where
God can do anything.

- This is what he does.

This is the work that he does.

He's accessible if
we reach out to him.

He's not lying when he says,
"I'm a very present help

in the time of trouble,"
like that's not a lie.

- And it's not a lie for you.

He is our very present
help in time of trouble.

He stands, he watches over
his Word to perform it,

and who is he going
to perform it for?

Well, he's looking for trust.

He's looking for faith,

and trust is another
way to say faith.

For LaTroy, here he is
lying, but he can't talk.

He's paralyzed, and, of
course, within himself,

he's going, "Why
did this happen?"

And we do that.

We get stuck in, was
there some sin that I did,

or was there
something I did wrong?

All of these things are
running through our heads,

and is this fair?

You know, all of these
questions, why, why, why?

For LaTroy, God responded to
those questions with trust,

trust me, and you
hear it from LaTroy,

LaTroy's wife, we trust God.

In our prayers, we're going
to realize we trust God.

Trust, reliance,
those are other words

that can translate the wonderful
Greek word behind faith.

That when you call it faith,

you're looking at
something spiritual

that you have to drum up.

When you trust God, that's
not something you drum up.

When you rely on God,

that's not something
you have to drum up.

That's just something
that you do, and in that,

you walk into miracle power.

The eyes of the Lord go to
and fro over the whole earth

to show him himself strong

to those whose hearts
are loyal to him.

That's another way to say faith.

Are you loyal to God?

Are you trusting God?

Are you relying on God?

Do you realize God watches
over his Word to perform it?

Do you say yes?

Yes, yes, yes, yes and amen.

When you have the
wonderful promises of God

flowing through your
innermost being,

well, then you have all the
trust and all the reliance

and all that you need
to walk into the reality

that he is our very present
help in time of trouble.

Now, we're going
to pray for you.

Before we pray, here's
some other miracles

that have happened to
people just like you.

What God has done for
others, he will do for you.

He's no respecter of persons.

All he is looking
for is are you loyal?

Do you trust him?

Do you believe his Word?

Well, here's Deidre by email.

"I was watching 'The 700
Club' for the first time.

I've been dealing with
left jaw pain and swelling

for 2 1/2 weeks, taking
ibuprofen or acetaminophen

every four to five
hours, day and night.

I heard them specifically
pray for someone

dealing with left jaw
pain and swelling.

I wondered if it could
have possibly been me.

It was."

All caps, "It was.

I've had no pain whatsoever
since that prayer.

I'm still in shock.

God is good."

- [Terry] That's a
revelation there, right?

Well, this is is an
answer to prayer also.

For a year, Fawn, who
lives in San Francisco,

suffered with chronic neck pain,

had two bulging,
or a bulging disc.

She was in so much pain,

she was ready to follow
the doctor's advice

and have surgery.

While she was texting a question

about the cost of the surgery,
she had this program on,

and Gordon, she heard you
say, "There's someone,

you've had stiffness on
both sides of your neck.

You've been diagnosed
with a bulging disc,

and you're weighing
options right now.

Here's the option for you.

Believe right now in Jesus'
name, he's touching that neck.

That disc is going
back into place.

The vertebrae are
coming into alignment.

You are healed in Jesus' name."

Fawn claimed the Word.

Since then, she hasn't suffered

or experienced any neck pain.

She is praising the Lord.

- All right, well, let's
praise God together with her,

and in that prayer, let's
have, in that praise,

let's have prayer for you.

Let's pray together.

Jesus, we come to you.

We come to you with thanksgiving
for what you've done,

the miracles that you've done,

how you've released
people from paralysis,

how you've cured a left jaw,

how you've healed a bulging
disc and a vertebra.

We know that you're able,
and we rely right now

that you are our very
present help in our need,

in our time of trouble.

So stretch forth your
hand to do miracles.

We are loyal to you.

We love you.

We rely on you.

We rely on your promise.

Your promise has
caused us to hope,

and we believe right now.

Do miracles, Lord God, for
we ask it in Jesus' name.

Terry, God's giving
you something.

- Yeah, there's someone
on the right side

of your mouth in the back.

You've lost a couple of teeth.

I mean, not in a good way,

like the dentist
hasn't taken them out.

They've fallen out.

You have some dental
issues going on.

God's healing that
for you right now.

Not just the teeth,
the bone, the gums,

the whole thing is just being
healed now in Jesus' name.

Receive that.

- There's someone you've been
having recurring heart trouble

and in that, you now have
a weakened heart muscle.

It's specific to
the left ventricle.

God is healing your heart now.

He's strengthening you, giving
you new life, new vitality,

new breath, new
strength, in Jesus' name,

be healed, and be made whole.

- Yeah, there are others.

Some you don't live
in this country,

but you have worked
so hard in your life,

your back is like bowed over.

God's healing that for
you just right now.

Stand up straight, let
your shoulders drop,

and lift your hands and begin
to worship and thank the Lord.

- Some with ows with
pins and needles,

pain in your right
hand and right arm,

God's healing you as well.

If you've been
healed, let us know.

Give us a call, 1-800-700-7000.

Faith shows the reality
of what we hope for.

It is the evidence of
things we cannot see.

God bless you.